βουλεύειν—‘to deliberate’, so often: in aor. ‘to resolve’. In iii. 42, however, τῷπλεῖσταεὖβουλεύοντι means ‘to him who advises best’. According to the general use of such words the active would mean to ‘give counsel’, the middle to ‘take counsel’, or deliberate; but Thuc. uses several verbs in the active in senses for which other writers employ the middle. παραχρῆμα— ‘at once, seeing (the actual state of things)’: πρὸςτὸχρῆμα is also read, but on worse authority.

τιπαθεῖν—‘that anything should befall them’, i.e. that they should die: cf. ch. 38, 11. Many manuscripts read ἤ before κρατηθῆναι, giving the sense ‘that they should run the risk either of death from famine or in battle, or of being taken prisoners’.

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